very beautiful girl

Thank you! Araivis-Edelveys did a truly incredible job on hir. Skye is a new fursona of mine, and somehow I swear there were times that it felt like Araivis knew hir better than I did.

ooh shis neat! very pretty fur pattern.

It's inspired by the "cross fox" fur pattern, basically because cross foxes, particularly the ones with more vibrant colors, essentially look like "this is literally an IRL fire Pokemon" lol. The idea with the orange flecks is that sie is "double coated" -- there's an undercoat and a topcoat, like (eg) many species of domestic dogs and like the American Red Fox, a melanistic variant of which is what cross foxes are -- but in Skye, the two coats are largely different colors. Where it's black with orange 'flecks' it looks like embers amongst coals, or like a charcoal grill where the briquettes have not quite yet lit but are almost there. Where it's a sort of darker orange (what I'd call "russet orange", which 1970s America mostly called "burnt orange" IIRC) with orange 'flecks' it's like a fire in a woodstove or fireplace. When sie walks, or really moves at all, the flecks change place, giving the effect of moving flame and dancing embers.

Every part of Skye has personal meaning to me, in one way or another. Life has not been kind to me, and Skye is, in a sense, an alter ego of me. As such: the number of times I have been burnt, in ways no burn cream can ever touch, no First Aid Kit can ever help, no nurse or doctor or hospital can ever reach... and yet I endure. Like a phoenix, I rise from the ashes... each and every time. As Skye, I literally have this part of me on display... I have taken the fire that has burnt me, the tool others have used to try and tear me down, tried to use to destroy me... I have made it my own to the point that I wear it without fear.

Wow a lot of personal experiance has gone into this characters design. Thanks for sharing!
=^_^=

Skye is a highly personal fursona in so many ways... unusually so, for me, and I'm one of those furries who's always *extremely* connected to their 'sonas already...

Lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely work, Aravis-Edelveys. I cannot thank you enough. To say that you did hir justice would be like saying that Monet made rather nice paintings of lily ponds...

I regret that I can +Fav this work only once.

Also: if anyone wants to know about the species or about Skye in particular -- reach out, please :) I'd love to hear from you. I love to talk and I don't get out much.